Re: emacs23 build failure
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> you wanted to be notified for hppa-specific failures. emacs23 fails
>> to build on hppa:
>>
>> Wrote /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rfc2368.elc
>> Compiling /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rfc822.el
>> Wrote /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rfc822.elc
>> Compiling /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rmail-spam-filter.el
>> Wrote /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rmail-spam-filter.elc
>> Compiling /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rmail.el
>> Wrote /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rmail.elc
>> Compiling /build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rmailedit.el
>>
>> In toplevel form:
>> ../../../lisp/mail/rmailedit.el:28:1:Error: Doing vfork: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> make[2]: *** [/build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/lisp/mail/rmailedit.elc] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/debian/build-x/lisp'
>> make[1]: *** [lisp] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/emacs23-23.1+1/debian/build-x'
>> make: *** [debian/stamp/build] Error 2
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>> ******************************************************************************
>> Build finished at 20091122-1723
>>
>> Logs at:
>> https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=hppa&pkg=emacs23&ver=23.1%2B1-5
>
> Thanks! I'll add this to my list and look into the failure.
This is a linux kernel bug on hppa. I've been able to reduce a
testcase from the emacs23 source, and I've passed it on to our kernel
developers. We are looking into it.
This is bug 558985.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558905
Cheers,
Carlos.
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